Elegance Quotes · Page 11

Physical elegance comes from the body. This is no superficial matter but rather the way that man found to honour the way…

— Paulo Coelho

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to…

— Kristin Chenoweth

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

— Sylvia Kristel

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think all women have a certain elegance about them which is destroyed when they take off their clothes.

— Rita Hayworth

Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

— Oleg Cassini

A man who relentlessly perspires to be excellent evidently inspires many with his intelligence and elegance.

— Anuj

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies…

— Anonymous

Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my…

— Laurie Graham

No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present:…

— Dee Dee Myers

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and…

— Paulo Coelho

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a…

— Edsger Dijkstra

It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring…

— Kate Reardon

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna…

— Isabella Rossellini

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the…

— Paulo Coelho

If a poor house is well kept, or a poor girl well groomed, there is elegance if not beauty. If good people…

— Zicheng Hong

Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.

— Elie Saab

“Because he doesn't know he carries within him a supreme elegance, I say it for him.”

— Marguerite Duras

Watching Federer is like looking at a work of art. It's elegance, he did everything magnificently. I became enchanted by him.

— Carlos Alcaraz

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.

— Volker Bertelmann

“In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?”

— Yu Hua

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.

— Christian Louboutin

I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

— Giorgio Armani

“Beauty might be a gift to our souls from the heavens. Luxury, purchased. But suddenly she understood. There was strength in elegance.”

— Lynn Sheene

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

— Christian Lacroix

“We won’t lower ourselves to your level, but if it makes you happy to destroy our elegance, then go ahead!”

— David Winner

It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.

— Nick Bantock

I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

— Natalie Dormer

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

— Cesar Romero

I Am She is an institution that reflects and personifies the grace, charm, and elegance of an Indian woman.

— Sushmita Sen

Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about

— Salvatore Ferragamo

“In all of his products, technology would be married to great design, elegance, human touches and even romance.”

— Walter Isaacson

The 50s are the age of elegance. That's kind of my intention when I get dressed: casual elegance.

— Laurence Fishburne

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

— Emile M. Cioran

Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

— Andre Leon Talley

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people. - The Elegance of the…

— Anonymous

“In the fashion industry elegance, style, and uniqueness always find their voices.”

— Debasish Mridha

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who…

— Thomas Haden Church